Adil Najam
A reader sent me a link to this video: A rap song on Pakistan, in French.
I should confess that I do not understand French and I am not really big on rap – except the kind from Yaqub Atif Bulbula.
But the song is catchy and the home-made video endearing in its own way. Just from the key words I can understand, it seems like a group of young second-generation French-Pakistanis expressing their ‘Pakistaniat.’ And that is a feeling one sees often in second generation diaspora. So, I thought I would share this as a weekend post; hopefully there is nothing in the lyrics that I would regret, and if there is please let me know.
Nice effort, keep it up. http://ihaveadream-pakistan.blogspot.com/p/outline -plan.html
Yaar, gaana tou aweiN hai. Par idea-y kay nambar pooray haiN.
I would also love to read a translation. Specially in the video when the bullet on glass visual comes.
Nice find. And good to see the pride they have in their roots and expressing it in their own way.
In some ways the change that 9/11 etc has brought is that young people living abroad have to deal more squarely with their roots now. That may actually be good.
awesome!!!!
Did you notice no city in Baluchistan was mentioned.
On next release, I would ask they add Quetta as well.